YBWYS

Chapter 61

All Tong Yao could see was the lit tip of the cigarette between Lu Sicheng's fingers.

As far as she could remember, he hadn't smoked for quite a while now.

After watching for a while next to the window, Tong Yao saw the two in front of the base were turning to head out. She almost called out to ask them where they were going. She stopped herself since she had realized it wasn't her business to butt in. She pressed her lips tightly against each other and closed the window.

......

In the front yard of the base, Lu Sicheng had made it clear to the person in front of him that they weren't a good match for each other. He suggested that it was getting late and he could see her home. Su Luo sensed that Lu Sicheng had no intention to continue with the conversation and had to inform him that she had driven herself here. She had parked her car outside the residential community. Lu Sicheng thought about it and then said: "Then I'll see you to the gate."

Su Luo was quite irritated: This man was perfect inside out. How could he not be hers?

Su Luo realized that the distance between the ZGDX base to the parking lot outside the gate would be her last chance to try to change his mind.

"Lu Sicheng, is it because I made a too high-profile appearance when I went to see your competition last time and you're unhappy about it?" Su Luo said: "I truly wasn't doing it on purpose. I just answered the people who asked me questions. I had no idea that you're this famous and those people would analyse what I said."

...... Lu Sicheng paused a bit: "It has nothing to do with that."

"Your fans have made a big fuss about it. I'm really sorry about it." Su Luo said with a frown: "They even located my Weibo account and some of them left really ugly messages saying that I'm shameless pretending to be your girlfriend."

"Sorry."

"Why are you saying sorry? It's not your fault, it's your fans." Su Luo stopped for a while then continued: "I don't quite understand the things in your esports circle. But if we have the chance to move forward, I'm willing to learn."

"It has nothing to do with that." Lu Sicheng extinguished the cigarette. Actually, he had only smoked a few puffs this whole time. Now, he just tossed it into the trash bin. "I don't know whether Lu Yue had said some silly things to you, like the rules of this circle. But you don't have to pay attention to what he said. The fact is that if I really want to develop a relationship with someone, I would take good care to protect her. She doesn't have to learn anything."

Lu Sicheng paused: "Therefore it has nothing to do with any of that."

"Then, is it because you're afraid to hurt your fans' feelings?"

"This isn't the entertainment circle. I'm just a game player, not a monk entering a monastery."

"Then what exactly."

"We're not a good match." Lu Sicheng simply replied.

The two had already reached the outside of the gate, probably because they were both tall and had long legs. It was a busy street outside the gate and they could hear the music coming from bars. Under the street lights, Su Luo turned to look at the man who was only half a head taller than her. Half of his face was hidden in the shadow with stubble on his face. But it didn't hide the fact that he was a handsome man.

The matter of fact tone when he said "she doesn't have to learn anything" made her heart skip a beat.

"How do we not match? Our looks? Intelligence? Family background? Or our height?" Su Luo laughed and used her chin to point at a couple in front of a bar not far away: "Even they can be together."

Lu Sicheng turned to take a look. He saw a big, tall man pick up a girl that only went up to his armpits onto a motorcycle. The girl was still wearing a high school uniform and the man only wore a tank top, showing his muscular arms and the tattoos on them. He ruffled her head and took out a helmet to put on the girl's head.

The girl smiled, reached her arms around his neck and pulled his head down so she could kiss him on his lips. Afterwards, she put on the helmet.

Su Luo: "That girl could be his daughter."

Lu Sicheng turned his eyes back: What's wrong with that?"

Su Luo was lost for words for a while, then gave Lu Sicheng a strange glance.

Su Luo: "What kind of person do you like exactly?"

Lu Sicheng: "......Someone who plays better games than me."

Su Luo chuckled: "Wasn't that just a publicity stunt?"

Lu Sicheng: "No, it's not."

Su Luo: "But does that person really exist? I heard that you're very good at games. No one is better than you."

"I never said it has to be the League of Legends. It can be someone who plays Tetris better than me. However, if it's League of Legends, I would marry her without a second thought." Lu Sicheng said with an expressionless face: "Good bye."

Su Luo: ......

Su Luo finally left. She couldn't change Lu Sicheng's mind in the end. She apologized and he said she didn't have to. She said she would work hard to get use to his profession and he told her it was unnecessary. She suggested that they matched very well from head to toe but he had made no comment-- --

He was as stubborn as a stone that even lightning couldn't split open.

Su Luo drove away, annoyed. When she passed the gate she had just left, she could see Lu Sicheng was still standing there. She lowered the car window and was about to wave him goodbye. Suddenly, the man turned around and looked straight into the community.

Su Luo paused for a moment. Her intuition told her that he was looking at someone back there.

But her car had passed the gate and in the end, she didn't see anything.

......

Under the dim lights, Lu Sicheng could see a figure getting closer. Finally, she stopped in front of him out of breath, huffing and puffing. Lu Sicheng moved his lips and looked down at the person who only came up to his shoulder. As he was about to speak, she gestured for him to shut up.

Then she bent over with hands on her knees and took a few deep breaths.

"Did you pass your high school PE class?"

"A girl who can play games well, looks cute, and has a good personality is already hard to find. Now she has to pass PE class as well." Tong Yao pulled the collar of her shirt up to wipe the sweat on her chin. "Don't push it."

"Which one of the series of requirements you just listed has anything to do with you, except the 'play games well' part?"

......

"What are you out here for?"

"Little Fatty said he's hungry." Tong Yao straightened up: "He sent me to get you to buy the crayfish."

"You can't make a phone call?"

"My phone is dead." Tong Yao checked behind Lu Sicheng: "Where's your blind date?"

"She's gone." Lu Sicheng took out his car key from his pocket and pat the person next to him on the head: "Let's go, go buy the crayfish."

"We have to walk back!"

"No one asked you to come out here."

Lu Sicheng turned as he was speaking. After a few steps, he noticed that Tong Yao wasn't following him. He stopped to look back and found her standing at the same place looking a short distance away. Lu Sicheng looked over and saw the high school girl and the man with arm tattoos were still at the same place, speaking intimately to each other. Something made the man so excited that he picked the girl up like a toy from the motocycle.


Tong Yao looked at them for a while before turning her head to see Lu Sicheng there. Both of her eyes were shining as if they said: "So cute."

......Lu Sicheng sneered: "That's cute to you?"

Tong Yao turned around and jogged to catch up with Lu Sicheng: "Aren't they good together?"

"What's so good about it?"

"You don't understand anything."

"Oh."

Inside the community, the light from the street lamps elongated their shadows on the ground. When Tong Yao fell behind Lu Sicheng, his shadow totally covered hers.

She looked up at the broad shoulders in front of her with unfinished words visible in her eyes.